Icarus @ 59 # 281

Being woken at four in the morning because your daughter wants to show you Chicago at night is worth wakening for, although I wasn't really sleeping at all. But drowsing and thinking and all the other sleepless things we do through the night. Its a spectacular city and I am so glad she shares my passion for it. She only stopped over by accident - there was a fire at O'Hare airport so the tennis team had to stop over and it was a toss up between posting this picture and her picture of The Bean - though I could do that tomorrow. I am reminded of the Carl Sandburg poem which represents a Chicago well before this picture was taken - I wonder what he would think now. I think I will go back one day becaue I bet it has changed since I was there. Last time I visted the Frank Lloyd Wright house on the University of Chicago campus, it had been used as a Faculty Office but having recognised its heritage it is being restored back to its origins - complete with furniture. Well worth seeing, though not sure I would want to live in it. Its all too square for me - who is used to Victorian imperfections. And this video is about the palce I came from - indeed, my sisters and my Dad live close by Salters Road: